User talk:Jengod/Archive 7
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Not trying to make this sound accusatory, but rather as a genuine request: In the future, when you move a blurb from an article onto a new article, please make sure it does not make reference to "the above paragraph" or "earlier in this article", etc. Thanks. DryGrain 18:19, 23 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Medical Vis.
Ty for the edit! :) --inks 21:15, 12 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Renaissance Philosophy
Thanks for the fix. Stirling Newberry 21:00, 12 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Compress the Hollywood Boulevard photo?
Have you got Photoshop? If you don't I could compress that photo into a JPEG which is a fraction of the current 800k. Mackerm 21:25, 13 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Jeopardy ToC
hi. i read your comment on the talk:jeopardy! page that the tournament of champions has been terminated. is this true? it seems strange that they would do that. i was wondering what your source was. thanx. -R. fiend 17:29, 14 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Supercouples
I realize I forgot a lot of supercouples, like Todd and Blair, and Jack and Jennifer from Days of Our Lives. If you can write articles about their histories, by all means, add them to the article. I only wrote fair to good articles on Cliff and Nina, Luke and Laura, and Greg and Jenny. I don't know if Nico and Cecily were a supercouple, though. They didn't fall in love in the conventional way, and I don't think Maurice Benard was on All My Children that long. In any case, tell me what you think. Mike H 22:52, Jul 17, 2004 (UTC)
- Speaking of, I got RickK to help me finish Cliff and Nina. What do you think? Mike H 00:16, Jul 21, 2004 (UTC)
did you know
you consistantly put up extremely interesting did you know entries. props. Thepedestrian 19:05, Jul 21, 2004 (UTC)
Question
Hi, you sent me a welcome message earlier today [1] after editing heriot .. I have since created an account name. Thank you for the welcome. Do you know how I can attribute the article I wrote as user 69.138.197.185 to be attributed to Stbalbach? Sorry I dont know who else to ask if this is a Sysop function or somthing I can do.
A Did you know candidate
I see that you are one of the main editors on the did you know template; I have an article that I feel would be interesting to list but am not sure of what order they go in/come out or anything like that. The article is Chidiock Tichborne, was created this evening, and is about one of my most favourite poets (even though he only ever wrote one poem). I suppose the formatting could be
...that [[Chidiock Tichborne]] wrote his only known [[poem]] while awaiting [[execution (legal)|execution]] for [[treason]]?
I think it's rather interesting anyway... -- Graham ☺ | Talk 20:47, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Links in article titles
You say, "Stop putting links in article titles." What do you think about using links in titles on certain pages, as List of Star Trek: Enterprise episodes? Also, nice job on the biographies!
Acegikmo1 21:29, 23 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Treasury Secretaries (kudos)
Nice job adding those stubs. There's lots of other American politicians who need stubs, if you have the inclination - see Category:U.S. Supreme Court justices or Category:Speakers of the U.S. House of Representatives, where there's a sizeable number without articles, for instance. Of course, if you don't want to, don't feel any pressure about it - I always get sick of adding in stubs like that. john k 23:21, 25 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Snow for the fishies
Thanks so much! I thought it would be worth writing up, as it's a rather interesting subject once the unnecessarily stilted and jargon-ridden source texts have been transliterated. I originally planned to write just an illuminating stub to compliment Vampire Squid (which I also got carried away with, sort of), but I'm happy with the results, and happy you've enjoyed it. :) By the way, I love the mad happy faces, and your soapbox points are spot on! Cheers, -- Hadal 02:46, 31 Jul 2004 (UTC)
To n-dash or not
Hi Jengod,
I would like to agree with your stance on n-dashes in biographies. My Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors agrees that this is the accepted punctuation for joining dates, or indicating tension/movement (although it only gives an example of dates in full years, e.g. 1914–18 war).
However, I would suggest that this rule is out of date and not necessarily appropriate for Wikipedia. The problem is that it is a rule created for printers, who have much better resolution to play with than we currently have on computer screens. If you look at the example on your user page, there is virtually no white space between the 9 and the – and the – and the 5 (it is probably font and browser dependent, but for me the &ndash actually merges with the 5). Typographically, this is very, very, very bad. It damages the readability of the text, plus it is un-necessarily difficult for editors.
I would suggest, that it would be better to encourage formatting like:
15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821
with spaces around the ordinary dash. Then encourage Wiki developers to spot this common style and render it with the appropriate dash depending on the output medium (much as dates can be reordered using Wiki-magic).
Just a thought. I guess there is a better forum where this sort of idea ought to be discussed. -- Solipsist 19:37, 2 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Summaries
Hi Jen! I thought you might be interested in this project: m:Wikisummaries. I think I will begin somewhere on en:, perhaps in my user space. +sj+ 23:54, 3 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Template:1911
I think that you were the one the edit-protected Template:1911, because you were the last one to make an edit to it. Can you please explain why it's protected? I would like to create the new category Category:1911, but I need to be able to edit the page in order to do so. [[User:Mike Storm|Mike∞Storm]] 01:59, 6 Aug 2004 (UTC)
List of Michigan county name etymologies
Hi, I noticed you're editing User:Jengod/List of Michigan county name etymologies in RC. I had started tracking down some of these (but I'm easily distracted). Some of them are pretty gnarly to put into a one-liner--that Henry Schoolcraft made up a whole bunch of the names using latin and native american elements. Like Arenac County, for example: The name was manufactured by Henry Schoolcraft from Latin arena, meaning "sand" and the syllable sounded as auk or akke, meaning "place" according to Schoolcraft's studies of Native American languages. Thus Arenac means "sandy place". Or how about Alpena County: Alpena County was originally named Anamickee, after a Chippewa chief who signed the Treaty of 1826 negotiated by Henry Schoolcraft. The word means "thunder", which was appropriate since the county orignially included the shore of Thunder Bay. Schoolcraft dismissed the Native American legend about how the bay was prone to thunder storms. He manufactured the name Alpena, using the Arabic al, meaning "the", and either of the Native American words pinai, meaning "partridge", or penaissee, meaning "bird". Schoolcraft later wrote that he used the latter word, with Alpena therefore meaning "bird country", although some believe the former word to be more likely, with Alpena thereby meaning "the partridge" or "partridge country". Most of the stuff I'm finding I think would go into the county article, but I was also thinking of maybe making a single table with lots of types of info. I started with User:Bkonrad/Sandbox, but the format right now is messy, and I couldn't see how to get etymology into it too without making even more of a mess. (And I know the List of Michigan counties already has some of this info, but I thought a table might work better than a list.) older≠wiser 18:44, 6 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- Oh, I have no objection to having a List of Michigan county name etymologies. I don't think I could cram the etymologies into what I'm doing in my sandbox anyhow. If (when) I ever get back to that, it will just be a spiffed up replacement for the current List of Michigan counties. For the Schoolcraft etymologies, I think you're on the right track to gloss over the details in the list. older≠wiser 19:27, 6 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Did You Know...?
Hello. I saw your comment on the Did You Know...? discussion page saying that people can go ahead and pick the articles they want to go on that section on the Main Page. Did you mean only admins? As I can't edit the main page. It's just that I have a doozy of a DYK. [clears throat]:
- Did you know that the British Royal Family announced the death of The Queen Mother's nieces - Katherine Bowes-Lyon and Nerissa Bowes-Lyon - when they were, in fact, in psychiatric care?
Admit it, it's stunning. I just stumbled on this info today and I'm writing it all up. --[[User:Bodnotbod|bodnotbod » .....TALKQuietly)]] 19:14, Aug 9, 2004 (UTC)
United States Template
Can you please tell me which browser (and what edition of that browser) you are using? I've checked it in versions of IE, Netscape and Mozilla and nothing I did ought to have affected the size of the font. The only thing I did is have the size-decreasal affect the whole inner table at once rather than each row separately.
But I'll change that part of it back, if you are still having problems. Let me know. Aris Katsaris 20:39, 11 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- Let me know if it looks okay now. And btw, what edition of IE does it say when you click on Help/About Internet Explorer? I have edition 6.0